Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21

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Everything is in readiness ct the jail.
HE IS HANGED.
At u :0S O'Clock CluyeriuS was hanged.
He died without making confession.
| Speaking through DR.. Hatcher, his min
lister, he said that in this moment of
death. when nearing the grave, he had no
| i'll feeling toward any man on earth. He
died by strangulation.
THE SCENE AT THE JAIL.
RICHMOND, VA, Jan. l+-Thomas
JudSon Cluverius, convicted of the
murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, was
hinged in tae city jail to-day As early
as a. m. people began TO gather in THE
| vicinity, and by noon every approach 70
the jail was packed with
human beings, as were also the house
tops and the hillsides near the all from
which a sight could be obtained. Ad-
mittance into the all waS had By tickets
issued by City Sergeant Smith, who ad
mltted over 200 persons. The prisoner
passed 8 sleepless nIght, most Of the
time being spsns win Beverly Crumb,
The one counsel who has done
everything to save his life, and who re-
NAMED with Tim TIL 3 a. IN. From that
hour until O'Clock he wss engaged in
prayer, AMI at intervals he ssng hymns.
From clock until 9 he slept soundly,
and then arose and ate break
last Of tenderloin beefsteak, .
mushroom and an egg omalct.
During the morning hours there was
much speculation Us TO whether the gov
ernnr would grant further respite, aud
that question was not finally settled uatil
ONE TIM alter noon, when Mir. Ccum1,
who mad tc' Il 10 see the governor, T.
turned tc the jail and announced
that the executive power you'd not IN
terpo>e. R-v. Dr.. Wm. I4tCher cane
/ 0 the Jail about il o'clock aud remained
with the prisoner to the last administer
ing religious consolation and PRAYING
with the prisoner. At noon 8 suit Of new
black clothes was brought to
the isil and the prisoner donned
them. At two minutes TO l o'clock the
death procession was formed, consisting
of Sergeant Smith, two deputies, Rev.
Dr.. Hatcher, and the prisoner, the latter
having his hands tied in front, and his
body from his neck to his ankles envel-
oped in an oldfashioned lady's water
proof cloak. From the cell the
march progressed TO the lower court
fronting the cells of the white prisoners.
Forty policemen were on duty to keep
back the crowd. The prisoner, though
thin and pale. moved with steady steps
to the scafold, which he assembled
and stood on the trap. Sergeant
Smith then read the death warrant and q
C py OF the Judgment, to which the pris-
oner list; ned with bowed head and ap-
parent close attention. When Sergeant
Smith had concluded, he asked the
doomed mSn If he
HAD ANYTHING TO SAY,
and Cluverius replied "No sir, nothing at
SILL" his voice being scarcely audible.
DR.. Hatcher then kneit ana offered prayer, |
and when ne had finished he turned TO
the prisoner who said few words in
low tone, and Dr. Hatcher turning to the |
crowd in the yard said: 81 requested |
~ the prisoner 20 utter one word for him, !
and that is that in this moment OF death |
he carries to the grave no feeling OF IL |
will towards any man on earth"
Dr. Hatcher then left the sc0fDid, /
raising both hands as ne went cut He |
cence to the last moment. When Dr. |
Seargeant Allen tied the pris,
oneris knees lightly together, pus
the rope around his neck and adjusted |
the black cap and hood. Everything be-
ing ready Sergean Smith gave the |
signal, and at los O'Clock the trap was
sprung Thee was a sudden siSS, fol- |
lowed by the clang of the
falling trap door, and the next
Instant the body of Cluvelius
was ct the end of the rope over ten feet
below where he had been standing. The
rope, which was made Of parti-colored silk,
stretched over foot aud the toes or the
hanged man nearly touched the brick
pavement beneath. There was Q minute
of quiet and tnen there was considerable
lasting several minutes, to-
gether with hard breathing. indicating
that death was being produced
by stranguation. After sixteen
minutes the physicians pronounced the
body dead, and twenty minutes after the
trap was sprung il was taken down and
placed in the plain wooden coffin and
turned over to the undertaken to 5e pre-
pared for burial at his former home in
King and Queen county.
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
Cluverius was convicted wholly upon
evidence. The body of
Fannie Lillian Madison was found in the
city reservoir on the morning Of March
10, 1885. She was enciente. At that
time Cluverius was at mis- aunt's, forty
miles from the city. The poor girl was
his cousin, and had come to RiclmoUd
from her modntain home, 500 miles
distant, two days before Ter death. She
had tod falSehCod IS to the cause OF
her c ming, saying that she was caled t.
Richmond to see sick lady and would
be there two weeks. She was there
within few weeks of the time when sic
would have become s motder. She Te-
marked casually as she got on the train
that her cousin, "TommY" CiUverius,
would meet her in Richmond, and !
though she left home smiling, she said ID
= ii. OF sadness 70 the conductor that she
wished the train would run of end Kill
ler.
She registered at the hotel in Rich
nord under an assumed name. A gen.
.lemsn called for her at night, whom the
,orter says was CIuverius, but they were
lot seen in tie hotel together, the only
)ther witness giving Testimony as to his
IDENTIFY that night being l. small negro
10Y who insists that he recognized him
S he got In the street car.
Here the testimony ends. Nobody else
wears to him so far as that night was 2